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7 extremely profitable linux commands

Posted 10-27-2011 at 05:02 PM by omgiamlinux
Updated 10-27-2011 at 06:29 PM by omgiamlinux

Ha, this information has been sitting on my desktop for a while. Needless to say, it's grown beyond more than just 7 commands, but I like the title too much to change it. Book mark and feel free to leave comments with commands you'd like referenced here also.

Working Using Linux

Code:

$  wget http://www.place.com/sourcecodez.tar.gz   #~~~ download something
$  unzip bla.zip          #~~~ unzip a zip
$  tar -zxvf bla.tar.gz   #~~~ unzip tar balls

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Day 6.7 - Configuring MySql for your rails app

Posted 10-27-2011 at 04:55 PM by omgiamlinux
Updated 10-27-2011 at 06:31 PM by omgiamlinux

This post is a part of a mini-series!
Day 6
1) Installing link
2) Test a Rails App! link
3) Configuring Webserver link
4) Configuring MySql (You Are Here)

Ok, sqlite is only for non-high volume traffic. So let's switch to using MySql. The first step is to install MySql, which you can see how is done here.

Then comes the configuration:
1) Create a MySql user
2) Create the 3 MySql databases for your...

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Day 6.5 - Configuring Nginx to Serve Rails Apps

Posted 10-27-2011 at 04:54 PM by omgiamlinux
Updated 10-27-2011 at 06:31 PM by omgiamlinux

This post is a part of a mini-series!
Day 6
1) Installing link
2) Test a Rails App! link
3) Configuring Webserver (You Are Here)
4) Configuring MySql link

ref: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/deployment/nginx-thin

Ok, let's assume that you've setup nginx on your computer, and installed rails, and even have PHP configured maybe. Now you want to work with rails via nginx. Well, that means you need to install 'thin' to...

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Day 6.3 - Rails application!

Posted 10-27-2011 at 04:54 PM by omgiamlinux
Updated 10-27-2011 at 06:32 PM by omgiamlinux

This post is a part of a mini-series!
Day 6
1) Installing link
2) Test a Rails App! (You Are Here)
3) Configuring Webserver link
4) Configuring MySql link

Finally we made it! We setup our debian machine, and can test a rails application out. This entry entails my first rails creation. Looks like we'll have a few more entries in this blog that explain how to setup a rails app using an alternative database engine, web server, and...

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Day 6 - Installing Rails, gem, rvm, etc.

Posted 10-27-2011 at 04:53 PM by omgiamlinux
Updated 10-27-2011 at 06:32 PM by omgiamlinux

This post is a part of a mini-series!
Day 6
1) Installing (You Are Here)
2) Test a Rails App! link
3) Configuring Webserver link
4) Configuring MySql link

:: Installing Ruby
ref: http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-r...rails-and-you/

Install prerequisites so we can use curl and download rvm (Ruby Version Manager).

Code:

$  apt-get update
$  apt-get install build-essential git-core curl

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